Renfro – ” Pops, Fizzes and Clicks.”
Electronica / Experimental / Down-tempo

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“A new MySpace friend request, worth accepting.”

Renfro, a refreshing sound that breaks the mold from the norm, with their “Pop, Click, Fizz” style, they bring an eclectic elctronic sound together with an experimental  folk indie, influence. Check them out for yourself. ~Peilo

  http://www.myspace.com/renfromusicspace  

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING~

“A collection of discoveries and manipulations that create a collage of sounds that delicately encases the listener. Renfro meld eclectic elements that produce dreamy, serene down-tempo with a multitude of components to absorb. The result is seemingly complex and layered sounds that also have simplicity. One spin of the album offers an airy, atmospheric vibe but subsequent listens have you deconstructing each individual noise, glitch and blip….comparable to the more subtle elements used on Thom Yorke’s solo release, “The Eraser”. Combine that with the gentle vocals of Branney and you have distinctive, innovative, serene electronic music that explores the poetic.” (Ashley Hampson in Exclaim! Magazine)

“Delicately bruised sensitive signatures coaxed to life by twinklesome snow-globe affected electronics and softly sighed deliveries… sweetly beguiling yet hurting and distant. Arrestingly fragile….is going to break a fair few hearts once it escapes on to the more clued up hi-fi’s of the record buying community” (Losing Today – The Indie Music Magazine)

 POPS, CLICKS & MELTED CIRCUITSRenfro are Atom and Tim. Tim sings the songs and Atom finds sounds. Together they manipulate brightly coloured samplers and also write words. This seems to work well.Renfro like the avant-garde, but often find themselves wanting to sing along too.They enjoy Low and Phoenix as much as they do Tod Dockstader and Christian Fennesz, so their idea is to meld experimental musical techniques with dream-pop songwriting.Renfro are based in East London, UK.They make music from electronic fragments. They formed in late 2005, born from a mutual love of the electronic music – Lali Puna, Oval, Matmos, Jan Jelinek, Paul Wirkus – as well as the voices of Robert Wyatt, Green Gartside, Solveig Slettehjell and Nina Persson.Very soon afterwards, whilst poking microphones at elephant seals in Santa Cruz, Ca., they wondered why pop music couldn’t be made using a soundtrack of field recordings and electro-acoustic manipulations.Those same elephant seals ended up joining a sonic cast that includes malfunctioning leads, rustling trees, tapped teeth, satellite signals, distortion bursts, and burning plastic (a credit card sacrifice).The end results see lushly layered vocals residing amongst twinkling tunes that float on a sea of pops, clicks and melted circuits. A kind of electronic-alternative-gospel-folk for the 21st Century.Sometimes it’s melancholy, and sometimes it chuckles quietly in the corner.Words are important to renfro, and they try to remain optimistic in the face of the political and social realities of modern life.Modernity is a tough gig, after all. Renfro like to explore the poetics of isolation, difference and collapse. For guidance they binge on film, literature and assorted junk culture.Renfro want to make music that embraces the future, rather than bathing in nostalgia for a retro-electro past. They believe you can, and should, make pop songs from the sound of technology breaking down.

Influences

Susanna and The Magical Orchestra – Midlake – Paul Wirkus – Elizabeth Fraser – Jan Jelinek – Low – Juana Molina – Iron and Wine – Colleen – Joan As Policewoman – Fennesz – Laura Nyro – Jon Hassell – Robert Wyatt – Joanna Newsom – Oval – Phoenix – Barbara Morgenstern – St. Vincent – Kate Bush – Eliane Radigue – Thom Yorke – Henryk Mikolaj Górecki – Smokey Robinson – Arvo Pärt – Kraftwerk